Improvement in whips



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ADDISON O. RAND. OF WESTFIELD,MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 101,912, dated April 12, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIPs.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making' part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be itkuown that I, ADDISON C. RAND, of Westfield, county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Whip; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact:

whips, and it is found that whips made with either rattan or wood, or of a combination of these with each other or with whalebone, are very liable to break,'es pccially at the junction of two materials, or, if they escape this fate, they stillfbecome loose at the same point and lop, or the tips of the whip soon become splinter-ed when much used,

^ 'The following is a full description by which any one skilled in this manu'tcture may make use of my intion. v

I rst obtain a metallic rod or wire, and taper it, so that from, say, an eighth of an inch in diameter at the butt, itbecomes a mere line at the tip. This I prefer next, to have carefully tempered, when it is entirely ready for usein manufacturing. At times I prefer to temper the rods before tapering.

By this method and this rod, the whip is made much more economically than when whalebone'is used, and much stronger and more elastic.

The'whip is built around this rod, and is then covered by an outer wrapper in thc ordinary manner.

Though the above is, in my opinion, the preferable mode of manufacture, I will proceed to mention several other methods which nia-y be employed, though less advantageously.

First, instead of thc use of one rod or wire, a number of wires may be arranged, either in the form of a bundle, large at the butt, and gradually decreasingin size or number, or both, as they approach the tip, or thewires or rods may be placed on the circumference of a central core, not metallic.

Second, I find a number of wires or rods, or even a v rope of wire, can be used with advantage over the present methods, these wires running through the whole length of the whip, or through only a' part of the same.

Third, a very good whip may be made by a tempered steel wire, with wood or rattan used to extend the central core through the length of the whip, the

steel wire extending only a part of the length of the whip. Sometimes whalebonc is combined with these materials. i

Fourth, I prefer that the tempered rod used as a central core shall be square, or near so, for a part of its length, for convenience in mamifacturing, but I do not confine myself to any particular shape round' wire or other wire will answer.

I'` have also used in some whips thin, fiat skirt-wire,

laid on the central piece to give additional strengthY ucar the butt. i I am well aware that bot-h leadv and-iron are often used in the butt of whips, for the purpose of render'- ing that part heavy and strong, and also that these were.

formerly usediu rawhides but these short bits of metal were never elastic, and did not at all answer the purpose of my invention.

The drawings accompanying this specification illus. trate in elevation and in longitudinal section a whip made in accordance with my invention.

A indicating a metallic core.

B, the longitudinal strips, and

C the outer covering or wrapper.

In making my improved whip I firstinclose the metal core between two or more enveloping strips, as seen in fig. 3, and then build up the stock by an-outer series of strips, vpreferably some large and some small, as seen in said fig-.3, the outer surface of the assembled strips being reduccd to give the proper form to the stock, the, strips being all confined together by suitable cement.

I claim- A whip or whip-stock having an inner' metal corel Witnesses: y

Jenn GQLD'rHwArr, J. R. RAND, Jr. 

